Privacy notice

Who we are

TryAnyway App is run by Jun Wang. In this notice, "we" and "us" mean Jun Wang. We decide how the personal data described here is used, which makes us its "controller".

General questions: hello@tryanyway.app. Privacy requests: support@tryanyway.app.

What we collect when you join

• Your email address.
• Your confirmation that you are 18 or older.
• When you joined, when you last submitted the form, and when you unsubscribed, if you do.
• Whether you're subscribed and, if we send one, whether our welcome email was sent.
• Whether our automatic check that a person sent the form succeeded and, if it didn't, the error code it reported. If the check can't run in your browser, which happens in some in-app browsers, we still add you but don't send the welcome email.
• Where you came from: the campaign tags in the link you used (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content) and the domain of the site that sent you, for example instagram.com. We store the domain only, never the full address.
• Which version of this page and of this notice you saw.

The sign-up form doesn't ask for your name, phone number or exact location. Campaign and source details are stored separately from your email.

What we collect if you tell us about yourself

Right after you join, and through a personal link in our welcome email, you can answer a few optional questions: what we should call you, where you're from and where you live now, which languages you're comfortable using, what you spend most of your time on, what you know from experience, what you'd like to understand, try or make happen, what kinds of people you'd like to meet, and what you'd be open to helping with. Every question is optional, and so is the whole step.

We save your answers with your entry, together with when you saved them, whether you answered right after joining or through the email link, and which version of the questions and of this notice you saw. If you answer again later, for example through the email link, we keep each set of answers.

Please leave out sensitive details, such as health information, religion, political views, ID documents or bank details.

The link in our welcome email works for 30 days. Anyone who has it can add answers to your entry, so please don't forward it.

What we collect when you email us

If you write to hello@tryanyway.app or support@tryanyway.app, for example to tell us about yourself, we receive your email address, your message and anything you choose to include. Please don't send sensitive details such as health information, ID documents or bank details.

What we collect when you visit

We count page views per day, grouped by the same campaign tags, referring domain and page version. These counts are totals: they are not linked to you and don't include your IP address or email.

We also use Cloudflare Web Analytics. A small Cloudflare script on each page reports the page you're viewing, the site that sent you and how quickly the page loads. Cloudflare works out your country, browser, operating system and device type from your IP address and browser details, and shows us only totals. Cloudflare says this uses no cookies or other browser storage, and doesn't fingerprint you or track you across websites.

Our hosting provider processes your IP address and basic browser details to deliver the site and block abuse. We use your IP address briefly to limit repeated sign-up attempts, and we don't store it in our database.

Our hosting provider also keeps technical logs of some requests, which can include your IP address, for up to 7 days. We use them only to fix problems and investigate abuse.

We don't use any other analytics service, advertising pixels, or cookies for tracking. Cloudflare may set strictly necessary security cookies to protect the site from abuse.

How we use it

• To email you about early access and send optional invitations, for example to tell us about yourself, to try an introduction, or to take part in an interview. You can ignore or decline any of them.
• If you answer our optional questions: to find people or questions that may be relevant to you, and to understand, in aggregate, who is interested in TryAnyway App.
• To reply to your emails and handle your requests.
• To understand, in aggregate, which posts and page versions bring people to the list, where visitors come from, and how well the site works on their devices.
• To keep the site working and the form free of spam and abuse.

We don't sell your data, show your email or answers to other people, or use them for advertising. We'll only introduce you to someone, or share what you told us, with your permission. We don't make automated decisions about you.

Legal bases

Where privacy laws such as the GDPR or UK GDPR apply, we rely on:

• Your consent, which you give when you join, for early-access emails and invitations, and when you choose to answer our optional questions, for using your answers. You can withdraw it at any time by unsubscribing or by asking us to delete your answers.
• Our legitimate interest in keeping the site secure, working and free of spam, for the human check, rate limits and technical logs.
• Our legitimate interest in understanding which posts bring people here and how the site performs, for aggregated counts and web analytics that don't identify you.
• Our legitimate interest in replying to you, and our legal obligations, for handling your emails and requests.

Service providers

• Cloudflare hosts this site, runs Turnstile (which checks that a visitor is human by processing your IP address and browser signals), provides the web analytics described above, and forwards emails sent to our tryanyway.app addresses to our inbox.
• Supabase stores the early-access list, including any answers you give us, in a database hosted in the United States (Northern Virginia).
• Our inbox is a Gmail account, so Google stores the emails you send us and our replies. Google handles them under its own terms and privacy policy.
• Resend delivers our automated emails, such as the welcome email when you join, from servers in the United States (Northern Virginia). It processes your email address and the message. These emails are plain text, and we don't use open or click tracking.

We share data with these providers only so they can provide their services to us. Cloudflare, Supabase and Resend process it on our behalf under data processing terms. Cloudflare also uses Turnstile signals to improve its bot detection, under its own privacy policy. We may also disclose data if the law requires it.

Where your data is processed

The early-access list and automated-email service are hosted in the United States. We may access the list and keep backup copies of it, and our providers may process data in the United States and other countries.

Data protection laws in these countries may differ from, and may offer less protection than, the laws where you live. Where the law requires safeguards for transfers to Cloudflare, Supabase and Resend, we rely on the standard contractual clauses in their data processing terms.

Age

The early-access list is for people aged 18 or older. If we learn that someone under 18 has joined, we'll delete their data.

How long we keep it

• Your entry and any answers you gave us: for as long as you're on the list, or until you ask us to delete them.
• If you unsubscribe: we keep your entry marked as unsubscribed, so we don't email you again unless you ask to rejoin, and we stop using your answers to find people or questions for you. You can still ask us to delete everything.
• If you ask us to delete your data: we delete your entry, its source record and your answers within 30 days.
• Emails you send us: for as long as they're relevant to your participation, or until you ask us to delete them.
• If we end the early-access programme without launching: we delete the list within 90 days.
• Backups: if we make them, we keep them for no longer than 30 days, so deleted data also disappears from backups within that time.
• Technical request logs kept by our hosting provider: up to 7 days.
• Web analytics: Cloudflare keeps the full data for 7 days and a sample of it after that. We can see totals for the past six months.
• Aggregated counts contain no personal data and may be kept.

How we protect it

• Connections to this site, and from it to our database, are encrypted (HTTPS). Our database provider also encrypts the list when it's stored.
• The list is kept in a private part of our database that isn't reachable through its public API.
• The sign-up form can add you to the list, but it can't read the list or change anyone's subscription. It responds the same way whether or not an email is already on it, so no one can use it to check who has joined.
• The optional questions can only add or update answers for one entry, and each form and link expires. Nothing on this site can load saved answers back from our database: you see your answers only in the browser tab where you saved them, until you reload or close it.
• Right now, Jun Wang is the only person on our side who can access the list and our inbox.

No system is perfectly secure. If a security incident puts your data at risk, we'll tell you promptly and explain what we're doing about it.

Your choices and rights

• Unsubscribe: reply "unsubscribe" to any email from us, or write to support@tryanyway.app. If you sign up again later with the same address, we'll email you once to confirm before adding you back.
• Delete your data: email support@tryanyway.app from the address you signed up with, and we'll delete your entry, its source record and your answers within 30 days.
• Access or correct your data: ask us what we hold about you, or to fix it, at the same address.

Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to receive a copy of your data, to object to or restrict some uses, and to withdraw consent at any time. We'll reply within 30 days. If you're unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to your local data protection authority.

Before we share, change or delete your data, we'll check that the request comes from you, usually by confirming it through the email address you signed up with. You don't need to verify anything to unsubscribe.

Do Not Track

Your browser may send a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal. We don't track you across other websites, and we don't sell your data or share it for advertising, so this site works the same whether or not you send one.

Other than Cloudflare, no company collects information directly from your browser on this site. Cloudflare hosts the site and runs the security check and web analytics described above. It says it uses the check's signals only to detect and block bots and to improve that detection, not to identify, profile or target individuals.

Changes

If we change this notice, we'll update the date above. If the change is significant, we'll email people on the list.

If we set up a company to run TryAnyway App, or hand it over to someone else, we'll email people on the list before their data moves to the new operator. You can leave the list at any time.